If you have used WooCommerce, then you may be aware of the password strength requirements when a user is attempting to register on your site. This requirement may be a little too strong for your liking but can be reduced with a simple filter.[Read more…]

Over the last year I have spent a good amount of time working with multiple WooCommerce powered websites. As the application becomes more complex, I am finding myself digging deeper into WooCommerce to find out how (or why) something works. I received a feature request that would require finding all orders for a product.

Laravel does an incredible job helping developers break their code into smaller parts, which reduces code clutter and makes the code easier to read. I recently discovered how to create a custom form request for handling validation during a form submission.

During the process of learning Laravel, I taken up the habit of creating many test applications for new features and ideas. With each new Laravel install, I find myself having to take the time to set up the same thing in each application. This process is becoming tedious as I have to dig through the documentation every time. I decided to document this process to save me some time with each new Laravel install.[Read more…]

I came across an issue when running unit tests in Laravel where my unit tests where altering my local SQLite database. I discovered the issue was due to the sharing of .env files. It turns out the solution is as simple as adding a single environment variable to your phpunit.xml file.

As I continue learning Laravel, often I find the need to create basic features for my sample applications. A common feature is the ability to assign users to a role. While role management packages for this feature already exist, I decided to build one myself and use it as a learning experience.

Laravel Dusk was released with Laravel 5.4 and gave developers an incredibly easy API to create and run automated browser tests. However, I came across an issue while running browser tests with SQLite.

WordPress provides filters for sanitizing and authenticating your custom post meta. These filters have been around since 3.3 — and until now — were unknown to me. I happened to be reading Tadlock’s content-type-standards repository on Github and noticed some references to register_meta().

DreamHost recently announced free SSL certificates through their domain hosting using Let’s Encrypt. Until today, my site was not on a secure connection (SSL). Even though I had intended to get my site on a secure connection, I just never got around to it until now.